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Is Dubstep Avant Garde Musical Genius?

Dubstep. Is. Awesome. While some people may hear noise, we hear amazing musical genius. The aural creativity of Dubstep, and its embrace of inharmonic sounds, makes it the most recent member of the long-established Avant Garde community. There is a long history of avant garde musicians and thinkers promoting the concept of noise and non-instrumental sounds as MUSIC, much to the horror of their audience. But over the past century, changes in technology and music genres have primed listeners, allowing mainstream audiences to enjoy the beautiful noise of Skrillex, Bassnectar & the whole Dubstep movement.

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  1. chicagobearsshufflingcrew reblogged this from humilityisendless and added:
    Debates Dubstep; uses skrillex as an example. Wowza. I’d also like
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    Is Dubstep Avant Garde Musical Genius?
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    Early morning mull-over
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    Is Dubstep Avant Garde Musical Genius?
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    I like this shit
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    Mr. Bungle? Fantômas? Earth? Boris? Ved Buens Ende? All real and better than dubstep sory!
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    also, there’s the whole deal where the simple theme continues into the development section, where it’s broken down and...
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